A butcher for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show butchers an animal on a wood block in a camp for the show. He wears a long apron with blood stains on it and holds a saw in his right hand. A young man stands in the right background watching the butcher. A tent is in the background. The flaps of the tent are rolled up in the left midground. A table and two large barrels are inside the tent. The Wild West Show reportedly employed seven cooks, two pastry chefs and two butchers to prepare three meals a day for about 700 people.

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"Salsbury Collection Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Rehearsal Pictures 1901" typed on first page of album.; Photographer's stamp "Photographed by John C. Hemment, 108 Fulton St., New York" on back of photoprint.; Photoprint has "98" handwritten in middle left side and on back; "butcher" handwritten on back of print.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Vintage photographic print.; R7001058292

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